Re: [ADMIN] File system backup question

2006-08-03 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] File system backup question I believe I have to use onserts due to the problem with the records with the improper utf encoding.  According to the docs this will cause the restore to fail. I will try it as well as a file system restore. -Original Message-

Re: [ADMIN] File system backup question

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: I am currently running PG 8.1.4 windows. The system is for a real time monitoring application (so downtime needs to be minimized if at all possible). I will be migratng to a new server running PG 8.1.4 on FreeBSD 6.1. I have been playing with various options for migr

[ADMIN] File system backup question

2006-08-03 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I am currently running PG 8.1.4 windows. The system is for a real time monitoring application (so downtime needs to be minimized if at all possible).   I will be migratng to a new server running PG 8.1.4 on FreeBSD 6.1. I have been playing with various options for migrating the data.  The d

Re: [ADMIN] On-line backup - /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous

2006-08-03 Thread Andy Shellam
We occasionally get the "file changed while being read" error, usually only once or twice a month (and we run nightly backups.) It's nothing to be concerned about, as someone else mentioned, the WAL logs will fix any internal inconsistencies. Regarding the file sizes, because it's zipped (I b

Re: [ADMIN] On-line backup - /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2006-08-03 Thread Mr. Dan
Another thing that conerns me is that the zipped file size keeps changing. I'm backing up 10GB total. One night the backup file was 9 GB, one night it was 874 MB and just now, 5 GB. I'm expecting a file around 1.5 GB (15% of the 10GB) that's there. ---(end of broa

Re: [ADMIN] On-line backup - /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2006-08-03 Thread Mr. Dan
Hi Marco/all, Thanks for the response. I've been running the same online-backup commands for over a year and restores have always worked fine. I've never seen 'file changed as we read it' though, before yesterday. The database is new to the server, as of a week. So, I'm more inclined to

Re: [ADMIN] how to increase performance of Postgre

2006-08-03 Thread Javanesevn
Hi, Thanks for your check list. It's helpful with me. -Javanesevn Shoaib Mir wrote: Have a look at http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ and change your settings accordingly. Thanks, -- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com) On 8/1/06, Javanesevn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote